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Huge misrepresentation of the facts.
Mozilla is creating an anonymous way to tell advertisers that someone saw x ads for product y after buying product y so that they can tell if the ads worked without tracking you.
You described ad tracking. Also why is an open source browser wasting time and money to create such a feature that no user needs?
Ad tracking by the user Vs user tracking by ads. It's very different.
Why would I track myself? That’s dumb.
Submitting anonymous data is better than ads tracking incredibly personal data essentially.
uBlock Origin. Why would Firefox submit anything except HTTP requests in order to interact with the web site?
Look no one likes ads but at the same time most people don't want to pay to use websites.
Advertising is just the reality of the internet.
So given the choice between anonymous data I control Vs them sucking up all the personal info they can I know what I'd choose.